joel brenner who, until 2009 was the nation's top counterintelligence official says the computer security guru was done in by the phone's g.p.s. technology which attached precise longitude and latitude coordinates to the photo. >> this is a tracking device there's no question about it. and we're all carrying one now. >> reporter: and when you use that tracking device to take a photo and you send that photo your information is also sent. >> and some of that data depending on how the phone is set, is going to include the location where it was taken. >> reporter: on his blog, mcafee called the disclosure an accidental release by an unseasoned technician at vice headquarters. now he's emerged in guatemala city asking for political asylum saying he left belize to escape a witch-hunt. >> at that point i decided i had to do something went undercover, i'm now here and i'm now going to speak out and speak out big time. >> pelley: mcafee, who developed the antivirus security programs that still bear his name, left that company 18 years ago. since then scott, he's been living on the millions he made